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V3 Electric reviews
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The Verdict
V3 Electric is not a company we can recommend. One homeowner lost two years of her life to a botched installation that began with deception after her husband's death, left nails scattered across her yard that punctured two tires, and ended with tarps and bricks blowing around on a leaking roof that damaged her TV and bathroom. Another customer paid $70,000 for a system the county inspector nearly rejected because V3's crew laid conduit too shallow three separate times, eventually flooding the inverter. We found 184 negative mentions of value and 181 complaints about post‑sale support, a pattern that shows up in story after story. Reviewers describe crews who don't know local codes, project managers who never show up when promised, and a revolving door of customer‑service reps who have no record of previous conversations. One homeowner spent a year trying to get a second undersized system online and was hit with two $3,000 utility bills while V3 ignored emails. If you want an installer who'll actually return your calls after the panels go up, keep looking.
If you're willing to gamble that your installation will be one of the smooth ones, you might save money upfront. But if anything goes wrong, expect months of unreturned calls, subcontractors who don't follow code, and damage V3 won't repair. The risk isn't worth it.
3 Stories That Stood Out
Robin lost her husband at the end of 2022 and, in the fog of grief, discovered a company called V3 on her doorstep convincing her 18‑year‑old son they were the contractor his father had hired. He tried to finish what his dad started, followed V3’s direction, and the family ended up with months of unscheduled visits and, about a year later, a solar installation plus roof repairs she never agreed to or signed for. She watched crews work around her home without clear notice: roofing crews used and cut her front‑porch wood, left power tools and cords strung across the yard and plugged in, and scattered shingles and nails across the property. She picked up roofing nails herself after getting two flat tires, and still finds nails on the ground. The replacement shingles are visibly mismatched, creating an obvious, tacky appearance. Worse, the roof has leaked for seven months at the solar installation area. Bricks and tarps placed on the roof blow around in wind, and water has soaked into the living room ceiling — enough to short out the TV and cause bubbling and cracking paint through the house and into a bathroom around the vent fan. Appointments and complaints have been made again &
When Jana hired V3 to install a $70,000 solar system, the job quickly turned into a string of installation failures and missed follow-ups. She found crews who didn’t seem familiar with the county’s electrical code, and the work failed the first inspection. The county inspector ultimately signed off, apparently without digging into the shoddy work, while V3 never sent the supervisor Jana requested to review the problems. Her husband had to point out multiple flaws onsite. After digging up the trench a second time to re-lay conduit and piping, rainwater entered a conduit that hadn’t been buried deep enough and wasn’t properly connected — an issue that fired the inverter. They ended up hiring their own electrical contractor to get the system tied into the house. About 1.5 years later the same conduit filled with water again and destroyed a replacement inverter; they were told the run still wasn’t to code. V3 had multiple chances to fix the installation but never provided effective supervision, and Jana was left with a nonworking $70k system after repeated water ingress into an improperly buried conduit — the single persistent failure that ruined the project.
Pie Ska brought this company in to finish a solar-plus-battery setup on a house his family mostly built, and what began as an installation turned into a years-long ordeal. He discovered the crew cut power without arranging a generator or even warning him to rent one, so a broken circuit left him with a significant loss of refrigerated food. An inspector failed the installation twice; when the inspector returned, he waited for the company but the crew didn’t show up to complete the fixes. Communication stayed only on paper — no phone calls — and requests to reach upper management went unanswered. What started as “over a year” of delays later stretched to 2.5 years with the system still unfinished: panels and batteries left incomplete, and a known component problem left unaddressed because the company wanted to push a final sign-off before repairing the fault. He feels treated like the problem rather than a customer, and has made it clear he will pursue another installer only after the company pays for damaged food, lost time, and other expenses related to their failures.
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Serving customers for 10 years
Operating longer than most installers in the market.
BBB Rating: A+
Excellent BBB standing. Strong complaint resolution.
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What You Can Expect
Two years after V3 Electric put solar panels on Paul Jensen’s home, the setup still stood out for being handled with unusual clarity. Josh Harden made the contract and installation process feel straightforward from the start, and the company kept the relationship going afterward with periodic check-ins, including a recent friendly visit from Brett Tighe. Rather than disappearing after the install, V3 stayed present in a way that made the whole two-year stretch feel cared for.
Teresa G had V3 install home batteries at her house and ended up with more than a tidy hardware setup — she gained ongoing support. V3 took care of all the rebate paperwork, a complex process that proved to be no small task, so she didn’t have to wrestle with applications and forms. Even a couple of years after the install they kept answering her questions and helped her work through follow-up issues, which reinforced her confidence in them. When she needs new solar panels or a full system upgrade, V3 will be the first company she calls — what lingered most was their willingness to manage the complicated rebates and to stay available long after the job was finished.
Norma’s experience started with a paired solar-and-roofing job signed in the summer of 2022, but what should have been a coordinated project quickly turned into a long game of unanswered messages, code surprises, and follow-up that kept slipping away. Roofing had asked V-3 several times whether brackets should be installed during the roof work, yet no one responded, and Norma did not learn until after the roof was finished in March 2023 that the chance had passed. By then, damage had already been created on her property, and while owner Tommy came out, took responsibility, and fixed only one of the issues, the rest was left hanging. The solar side wrapped near the end of summer 2023, but the headaches did not. In 2024, Calaveras County told her that gutter protection was required under code R337.5.4, a rule in place since 2016 that had never been raised during the gutter installation. Tommy again agreed to install the gutter guards for free, then never returned with a date despite repeated follow-ups in May, June, and August 2025. Around the same time, she also raised a separate V-3 complaint about solar plates lifting; that claim sat until Omnidian stepped in in July 2025, after,
Posting a couple years late, Justin had batteries installed on his home and still remembers the experience positively. He found the crew easy to work with and the battery upgrade straightforward, leaving him with a quiet, well-handled addition to his home energy setup.
Mary has relied on V3 for her home’s solar for six years, and today Marshall stopped by to inspect the panels — a small, hands-on moment that underscored the company’s ongoing support. She has experienced steady, dependable service across that time and appreciated that a technician still makes house calls for routine checks. The detail that stood out: the relationship didn’t end at installation; V3 keeps showing up years later to make sure the system is running well.
Jason’s solar project went fine at first, but three years later the experience soured when a problem came up with equipment V3 had installed. Instead of helping sort it out, the company asked for $750 just to inspect the issue and leaned on the fact that the job had been financed through a third party, even though V3 was still the installer on the project. He ended up finding a local company that stepped in without hesitation, while V3 kept its distance after collecting thousands for the original work. In the end, the defective equipment was getting replaced, but the support that mattered most came from the other contractor, not the one that put the system on the roof in the first place.
When Adam stopped by for a routine follow-up, Monique Poole discovered she had nothing but praise. She has had the solar system on her home for four years, and throughout that time the panels have performed reliably with no surprises on her electric bill and no problems from the original install. During the visit she pointed out that the combination of steady savings and a proactive service check left her genuinely pleased — the clear takeaway is a four-year track record of dependable performance and trouble-free billing after installation.
Kim’s Napa home ended up with a 26-panel V3 system installed in 2022, sold as something that should cover 106% of her usage, but the job quickly turned into a headache. During the city inspection, the electrical panel was found full of water and the system failed, and when the box was mounted on her wall, the crew sawed through her living room wall. Even after that, the bills kept climbing: the first true-up came in at $1,400, then the next year it jumped past $2,200, all while she was still paying $204 a month to Sunnova, a $174 true-up, and her regular PG&E bill. She kept asking what was wrong and sent copies and PDFs to both V3 and Sunnova, but the response she walked away with was that nothing was wrong at all, followed by an attempt to sell her more panels. PG&E’s answer left her with the most frustrating detail of all: it could just depend on which panels you get.
Mark had V3 install a residential solar system two years ago after being promised big savings and told a battery would only be necessary during outages. He later discovered the company never explained the annual true-up reconciliation, and the system consistently underdelivered. That gap left him facing $2,000 true-up bills and carrying roughly $400 a month in payments for panels that aren’t producing enough. When the financing partner, Mosaic, went bankrupt, he reached out to V3 for help and found no support. He ended up feeling trapped financially, saying his only options seem to be bankruptcy or foreclosure, and the one detail that lingers is the lack of assistance from V3 after the lender collapsed.
Long-term Satisfaction
Long-term satisfaction for V3 Electric drops to 2.7 ★ compared to early reviews. This decline is worse than 63% of installers we looked at.
Long-term reviews carry the most weight in our methodology because they are most representative of what you should be paying for: a system that will perform for years.